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Pakistan snub in IPL3

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This has been a topic of ongoing discussion amongst 3 of us who carpool to work.  I am trying to understand how snubbing Pakistani cricketers from a local (call it Indian) tournament constitutes an insult of Pakistan.  Does Pakistan have nothing else to worry about?  I guess they are not worried about people dying in their backyards and worried more about how the supposedly best players of T20 have been left out.

Look, each franchise buys these players for money.  They have a choice of picking whoever they want for whatever reasons they want.  However, collusion in any business is not good.  If that is what happened, then I am not on board with them.  However, insult to a Pakistani nation for not picking its players is taking things a bit too far.

Now, Shahrukh Khan is saying how humiliating it is for Pakistani players not to have been picked in IPL3.  As far as I know he is one of the owners in IPL and he had $750k to buy someone.  Why didn't he buy all of the Pakistani players?    Talking moronically after things are done makes me look at SRK in the same fashion the Fake IPL Player did in last edition of the IPL.  I basically look at it this way - he had a chance to go against the grain, follow his heart and select the best players of Pakistan.  He didn't do that and now talking about it makes him look more of an idiot.  SRK is also known to want to stay in the limelight especially when his movie is going to come out.

I for one don't really care whether Pak players were selected or not.  If it were an ICC recognized tournament, I would have agreed that a snub of Pak players needs to be investigated.  While, I agree with the basic premise that "Sports and Politics should not be mixed", you have to agree that you cannot have Pak send gun totting soldiers and terrorists to kill Indians and then expect Pak cricket players to be given thousands of dollars to play in an Indian Premier League.  There will be consequences whether people like it or not.
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